The future of intelligence practice: Concluding lessons for just intelligence institutions

In this chapter, we draw lessons from the recent COVID-19 pandemic about the relations between national security intelligence practices and institutions and non-national security space. As the COVID-19 pandemic spread around the world, the unique epistemic tools and skills of intelligence were needed to understand what was happening and also to provide guidance for political decision-makers. The basic argument of this chapter is that the interactions between national security institutions and public health institutions present a very useful way to envision the future of intelligence. We use this chapter to consolidate a number of arguments and principles developed through the book, that the jus ad intelligentium and jus in intelligentia principles are in fact ways of ensuring and assuring the public at large that their intelligence institutions are worthy of trust.